While you might not think of Spotify as a platform where people can harass others (the app doesn’t have a messaging feature, after all), it’s definitely happening, and Spotify is doing nothing to stop it.
LADIES, imagine this: you sign on to Spotify and you’re not quite sure what you want to listen to, so you head over to the “Browse” section and click on “New Music Friday,” to hear what the latest releases are. Maybe you do this every week! And while you might think you’re getting a well-curated, diverse selection of…
Less than a month after Spotify announced its decision to stop promoting artists who have committed “hateful conduct”—whatever that means—by not including them on any official Spotify playlists, the company is calling the policy off. “Across all genres, our role is not to regulate artists,” the company wrote in a…
This May, Spotify took it upon themselves to enact a new “hateful content and hateful conduct” policy, which removed the music of artists R. Kelly and rapper XXXTentacion from the service’s promoted playlists. The measure was enacted following allegations that Kelly has, for decades, sexually abused underage girls and…
If you were thinking that Spotify’s new “hate content and hateful conduct policy”—which was faulty to begin with—would stop other alleged abusers’ music from being promoted, think again.
On May 10, Spotify announced that it was removing R. Kelly’s songs from its branded playlists, but not from the streaming service entirely. The move, part of Spotify’s new “hate content policy,” was undoubtedly influenced by the #MuteRKelly campaign, which in addition to asking RCA Records and Ticketmaster to drop R.…
On Thursday, Spotify removed R. Kelly’s music from their promoted playlists as part of a new “hate content and hateful conduct policy.” Now, R. Kelly has responded to the decision, again denying the claims of sexual misconduct that have followed him for decades. In a lengthy, wordy statement provided to Variety,…
Those who still feel the desire to listen to R. Kelly’s music will have to actively look for it on Spotify, thanks to the new Hate Content & Hateful Conduct Policy that went into effect on Thursday.
Last year in Cardi B’s New York cover story, part of the Bronx rapper’s rise was attributed to the Swedish streaming service Spotify. More specifically, the company’s rap-focused playlist RapCaviar:
As people grow older they’ll still return, time and time again, to the music that first enraptured them as teenagers. So if you’ve ever wondered, “Why the hell are New Kids on the Block still successfully touring despite not having any hits since 1990?,” here’s your answer!
In what might go down as the most devious act of Katy Perry and Taylor Swift’s years-long feud (over backup dancers of all things), the artist commonly referred to as a snake emoji decided to make her entire catalog available on streaming services like Spotify almost three years after having them removed. The addition…
Jay Z, hip hop superstar, entrepreneur, and husband to Beyoncé, has requested that his entire musical oeuvre be pulled from Spotify.
I’ve been sitting here for the past few hours waiting for something—anything—to be released by Katy Perry. The most optimistic parts of myself expected a full album (perhaps a Spotify exclusive) from my guiltiest of guilty pleasures, but it appears I had been hoping for too much, as all we Katycats were given this…
On October 18, 2011, when fall was actually cold and Billy Bush was still employed, I dragged 38 songs into a new playlist. Among them were Mariah Carey’s perfect pop track “Always Be My Baby,” Beyoncé’s wonderfully endless “Love On Top,” Des’ree’s effortless and empowering “You Gotta Be,” and Bonnie Tyler’s karaoke…
Though bad music during a wedding reception is expected—if not mandatory—songs chosen for first dances are a different beast. Though a combination of free alcohol, old friends, and terrible cousins can make even the worst song a joy to dance to by the end of a night, the first dance is different. All (mostly sober)…
So much goes into planning a national party convention! You have to work out transportation and housing logistics with the host city. Prepare the venue(s). Develop a schedule of speakers and panelists. Field media requests. Beg celebrities to drop by. And coordinate an army of over 10,000 volunteers and DNC staffers,…
In the tech industry, paid leave is becoming a sought-after benefit for employees, and for employers like Spotify, Twitter, Etsy, Netflix, it’s become an explicit priority. But, as Rebecca Greenfield writes at Bloomberg, these policies are made feasible partly because the tech workforce is still mostly male.
Very Specific Playlists is a weekly feature in which Jezebel staffers make very specific Spotify playlists based on their weird proclivities.
On July 20, 2015, Spotify introduced a new feature called Discover Weekly. It works like this: every Monday, Spotify presents you with a 30-song playlist—approximately two hours’ worth of music—based on “both your own listening as well as what others are playlisting and listening to around the songs you love, making…
